Os 10 melhores authors of books of semper

He is a lover of literature and volta e meia gosta to reler some classical? Ou não é assim tão fã, more resolute than já and time to begin to know the great names of universal literature?

Thinking of pleasing the most varied audiences, we create this list as the greatest authors of books of all times and as their great works. We wish everyone a boa reading!

1. José Saramago (1922-2010, Portugal)

The only Portuguese writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature was José Saramago, filho and net of Camponeses da região da Azinhaga (Ribatejo, Portugal). When he was barely a year old, the country of Saramago moved like filhos to Lisbon.

A family, of humble origins, had numerous financial difficulties and Saramago had to abandon his studies to work. O first time I was employed as a mechanic serralheiro, depois trabalhou as a civil servant (in the area of ​​health and social security).

Stuck for words, Saramago became a journalist, editor and translator. He confides in an interview with the entire writer granted when he saw Brazil in 2003:

The writer's first romance was launched in 1947 (Terra do Pecado), depois da publicação Saramago ficou 19 years with launching new works. When he finally resolved to place books on the market, Saramago published some of the greatest works of contemporary Portuguese literature.

Main works of José Saramago: Convent Memorial (1982), O ano da morte by Ricardo Reis (1984) e Ensaio about a cegueira (1995)

Do not perch to leitura do artigo José Saramago: biography and books.

2. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977, Brazil)

In spite of being born in Tchetchelnik, in Ukraine, Clarice (who when she was born was beaten from Haia) moved a little bit to Brazil next to two countries and more days. Fugin from the anti-Semitic persecution, the Lispector family decided to move from time to time to our country.

Clarice went to childhood in the northeast and, after my death, in 1934, she settled in Rio de Janeiro. So that she was formed in Direct, in 1941, and began to work in redações.

As well as writing for the printing press, Clarice also provides translations and writing fiction. To her first work of her, very celebrated, was Perto do coração selvagem, romance launched in 1944. Depois le vieram other classics, two more diverse genres (stories, chronicles, children's literature).

Relembre uma das more important interviews granted by Clarice Lispector:

Main works of Clarice Lispector: Family ties (1960), A second paixão G.H. (1964) e At the hour of the star(1977)

Read também or artigo Clarice Lispector: life and work.

3. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849, United States)

Once you blink, any critic will say that Edgar Allan Poe is two great names in North American literature. Apart from the author, Poe was also a critic, editor and editor.

Whoever was going to become or a forerunner of modern police literature, has a troubled origin. Filho de um casal de atores de an itinerant company, Edgar was a small man (it is not known that he was abandoned to a family or a faleceu) and was born in 1811.

Sheltered by an adotive family, Poe has relationship problems with those closest to him, he was a boêmio and agitator who collected problems with drugs and gambling.

It was his literary career that started in 1927, when he published poems and releases or was released from his own resources. For two years to follow, he published his second book and, from the third year, he resolved to dedicate himself entirely to literature.

Or poem The raven (Or corvo) It was published on January 29, 1845 and became one of two major classical North American literature

Main works of Edgar Allan Poe: Or little and or pendulum (1842), O heart revealing (1843) eOr corvo(1845).

How about knowing more about the writer? Espreite or artigo Edgar Allan Poe: biography and complete works.

4. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881, Russia)

Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky, is this or not complete of two major genres of Russian literature. As a sad life story, Fiódor ficou orfão jovem (he lost me when he was 16 years old or when he was 18 years old).

Trained in Military Engineering, he held public office and began to escape in 1844. Or seu first romance of hisPoor people) was published two years later.

Five years since he was imprisoned for conspiracy against Czar. Despite being sentenced to death, he was sentenced to death for five years under the regime of forced labor in Siberia.

Foi in 1861 that he published or romance Humbled and offended, that or consecrated between you pairs. A dense writing by Dostoevsky, it raises many existential reflections and mainly touches no fear of guilt.

Main works of Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment(1866), Or idiot (1869) e We sign you Karamazov (1880)

5. William Shakespeare (1564-1616, England)

Or English poet and playwright as um dos maiores nomes da universal literature. Born in a small town in England (Stratford-upon-Avon), William was filho de subprefeito da região e recebeu or melhor da educação do seu tempo from him.

Despite being in the interior, it was in London that Shakespeare achieved fame after having entered the Theater Company of Lord Chamberlain, in 1594. Or it happens that it becomes a partner of the Globe Theater.

Over the past year, the author has written about 40 theater pieces as well as a series of poems.

How about knowing or artigo Shakespeare poems?

Main works of William Shakespeare: Romeu and Juliet (1594), Hamlet (1603), Othello (1609) e Macbeth (1623)

6. Marcel Proust (1871-1922, France)

Filho of Adrien Proust and Jeanne Weil, a well-stocked family, Proust was raised with access to French school boas. During his adolescence he had classes in Direito e Literatura.

In 1896, Proust published his first work by him (Les Plaisirs et les jours), a collection of brief histories.

It was because of the death of two countries (or country in 1903 and me in 1905) that Proust felt himself to be in order to undertake the greatest challenge of his life: a romance of throwing or fôlego. From 1905 Marcel began to write his great work.

O first rascunho do firstiro volume (Du côté de chez Swnn) It appeared early in September 1912 and was challenged by a series of editors. Motivated to carry out his project in front of him, Proust paid for the publication with his own resources.

After the first impasse, as released, Proust found publishers interested in paying for the publication of his subsequent works.

The greatest French writer died of pneumonia, but left as a legacy of the greatest literary works of Western culture.

Main work of Marcel Proust: I'm looking for the lost tempo (1913-1927)

7. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616, Spain)

Or major does not give Spanish literature, Miguel de Cervantes is considered as or forerunner of Spanish realism. Pioneiro, or seu Dom Quixote de La Macha (1605/1615) is regarded as the first modern novel and the most translated literary work in the world.

O pai do writer was surgery surdo and throughout his life a family passed through financial problems. Miguel began to write in 1569, but I saw or worked the interrupted logo not to follow, when he was a soldier and was sent to a Spanish base in Italy.

You have many adventures alone abroad, he returned home in 1580, when he began to write that which would turn to his great work.

The first publication of Miguel de Cervantes was launched in 1585 and has no great expression, as well as the writings that he released for years. Foi barely in 1605 that left the first part Dom Quixote, work that or consecrated, tendo launched in the second part ten years later.

Main works of Miguel de Cervantes: To Galatea (1585), O engenhoso fidalgo Dom Quixote de La Mancha (1605 e 1915) e Exemplary novels (1613)

8. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014, Colômbia)

Two major names for fantastic realism, as works by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez já foram translated for more than thirty languages. In 1982, Gabo received the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he consecrated as a few laureates from Latin America.

Born in Aracataca, a family that has eleven filhos, Gabriel resolved to be a writer at 17 years of age, depois de ler To metamorphose, classic work by Franz Kafka.

In spite of having entered the Direito course, Gabo always knew that he wanted the same thing to be written and, in 1947, it was first published. Not to follow, he went on to work as a non-newspaper El Universal journalist.

Or first romance - O entro do diabo: a revoada - It was launched in 1955. But to his most famous work, Cem years of solidãoIt was to be published sometime in 1967.

Watch the interview granted by Gabo in 1995 in full:

Main works of Gabriel García Márquez: Cem years of solidão (1967), Chronicle of uma morte announced (1981) e O love us tempos of anger (1985)

Do not perch to leitura do artigo A life and a fantastic work of Gabriel García Márquez.

9. Franz Kafka (1883-1924, German)

Kafka é um dos maiores nomes da modern literature. Born in Prague, the son of a wealthy merchant, Franz was a Jew and was formed directly in 1906.

Despite becoming advocated, Kafka never advocated and always achou that has a vocation for a writer - despite his Escolha muito ter displeased or pai, Hermann, who was a homem of business and desires that or filho Seguisse or the same path.

With a realistic writing, Kafka described with precision the feelings of anxiety, guilt and injustice as many of us managed to relate to all the days of the page.

Main works of Franz Kafka: To metamorphose (1915), Or cast it (1926) e Letter ao pai (1952)

10. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986, Argentina)

Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was raised in the Argentine capital and has spent a brief period in Switzerland. Later, he also moved to Spain, where he developed a little more or his literary style.

The first publications of Borges in Argentina will take place during the 1920s and were exemplary of poetry. We will see you tell and fiction books.

Borges became an official of the Miguel Cané Municipal Library in 1937 and, 18 years later, as director of the National Library.

Besides escrever, Borges also worked as a professor in the classrooms of American and English literature at the University of Buenos Aires.

Much awarded in life, or Argentine was consecrated as one of the great voices of Latin American literature. Released one of the author's interviews:

Main works of Jorge Luis Borges: History of eternity (1936), Ficções (1944) e Aleph (1949)

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